Designers have coveted print for its precision layouts, lamenting the varying user contexts on the web that compromise their designs. Ethan Marcotte advocates we shift our design thinking to approp…
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
Preserving the Pixel Art Look in Web Content
Learn essential CSS techniques, scaling strategies, and design principles that preserve the crisp, totally-cool aesthetic of pixel graphics across high-resolution displays and responsive web environments.
Issue 345 of CSS Layout News | Rachel Andrew | Offprint
Rachel Andrew shares tutorials, video, and browser news with a focus on CSS layout.
The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet
How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.
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The Layout Maestro by Ahmad Shadeed
Build any web layout with confidence. Learn practical CSS layout through visual lessons, interactive demos, and a proven layout mindset.
Designing for Uncertainty - AT Protocol
Ethan Marcotte, who first coined the phrase Responsive Design, joins to discuss how to operate in a world defined by uncertainty.
Webdesign as architecture
An attempt at modelling digital design as a form of psychological architecture, taking the form of a single HTML document.
Object-Oriented UX
We know big, monolithic webpages won’t meet the needs of responsive sites and endless screens. But we’re often still quilting together design patterns and content modules, rather than truly thinkin…
Evolving the infinite canvas
In the digital world, especially on the web, we’re used to things being stacked vertically. Scrolling, scrolling, through boxes of content,
Theming atproto · blog.damato.design
Taking Mise en Mode into the new web standard
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
The CSS Selection - 2026 Edition - Project Wallace
The CSS Selection shows real-world CSS usage from over 100,000 websites and looks at the most important metrics.
In Defense of Readers
As web designers, we concern ourselves with how users move from page to page, but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Learn the design techniques that create a mental space for …
